THE C2 MEN

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 87, 5 January 1918, Page 8

THE C 2 MEN

5000 FOR RE-EXAMINATION The special Medical Board set up for ■the. re-examination of reservists previously declared unfit for actiyo service has started lvork again. It is at present sitting in Auckland, and during the next four or five months it will travel right through New Zealand and examine about 5000 men. These comprise balloted men drawn after tha Sixth Ballot, and First Division volunteers. It is expected that a substantial proportion of the men will be reclassified and 6ent either to the training camps or to the CI Camp for special training. The re-examination of rejected volunteers is a necessary part of the system. Reservists who volunteered and were given leave without pay after being classed unfit avoided the ballot, and it is essential that their papers should pass through the hands of the CI Board for reconsideration if the "clean-up" of the First Division _ is to be complete. The re-examination of rejected"Second Division volunteers will come later. The men will be called after the exhaustion of their class ,by the ballot. This rejected A Class volunteers will not be called up for re-exam-ination until all A Class men who did not volunteer have been balloted. A draft of recruits is to enter tha CI Camp this month, tlio mobilisation beginning on January 15. No reinforcement is to be mobilised this month. The next draft, the Thirty-sixth Reinforcement, will go into camp during tha davs February 5-9.

The classification of balloted men and volunteers by the Medical Boards is not always fully understood. The mon aro graded by the boards as follow.* at the first examination:— A —Fit for active service beyond theseas. Bl—Fit for active service beyond , the sens after operation in camp or nuhlic hospital. B2—Fit for active service after recovery at lirnne. Cl—Likely *" become fit for pctire service after special training. C2—Unfit fov active service Jieyoncl the seas, but fit for service of some nature in New Zealand. D—Wholly unfit for any service whatever. ■ , Mon who are classed CI are. plnr-ed in the CI Camp, whore they aro given ■special training with the object of making them fit.' Men who have been classed C 2 or D may he called before the CI Board for v-esamiuntion if the medical officers, after looking at the records of thn first, examination, consider that there is some chance of their proving fit for training in tie 01 Camn.